as small as a world and as large as alone

6:57pm October 17, 2013

mulder-are-you-suggesting:

One of the myths about autism that I wish would just die is the idea that, if you didn’t get diagnosed until adulthood, you therefore must seem really “normal” and/or have no real problems.

Yep.  I know many adult diagnosed people who were actually thought severely intellectually disabled as children, or who had no diagnosis, or who were diagnosed with a mental illness, but who had very very obvious things going on.  There’s not always any correlation at all between what age you were diagnosed and how “obvious” you were.  And there’s not always any correlation between how “obvious” you were and whether people noticed specifically that you looked autistic.  (Because that hinges on understanding what autism looks like, and on not having found other explanations for your behavior such that they remember their explanations and forget the behavior.)

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